So, through the blogvine, Chinabounder is back, with an ass-ripping of mega proportions against the Chinese...well the Chinese everything.

He made news when his sexual relations with Chinese women that he wrote about made him the target of a witch-hunt by a professor and Chinese netizens.

It chased him into hiding for six months.  He seems to use ( Read more... )

The first "modern" wedding I went to in China was interesting.  This was the second one they had in the bride's hometown, Changsha.

For the most part, it was similar to the reception phase of an American wedding, since they don't do religion here, the "ceremony" took place in the same area as the dinner.  It first started with a meet and greet of ( Read more... )

So since no one here can figure out if the water has been cut-b/c all the students are leaving-or one of the "tubes" is broken like a friend said, I haven't had a clean shower, or tooth washing, or personal hygiene experience in the last 24 hours ( Read more... )

It pains me to read this article in the Washington Post about corruption in news agencies in China.  And another one where someone was killed, but they are trying to figure out if he was a legitimate journalist or just trying to extort money.

It's one thing if there is a biased to the reporting-for or against, good or bad-they all have certain ( Read more... )

I will go into the wedding and trip to Mao's birthplace later, but I have some cultural questions I hope some of you can answer ( Read more... )

during my journeys around China through the years I've been accosted by ( Read more... )

So China, I'm sorry for all the bad names and disrespect I have given to you people over my year and a half staying here.

I've called you uncivilized animals with no upbringing, manners, or sophistication.

And I'm sorry for that.

At least to the northerners.

Southerners can suck my salty, slightly enlarged, left nut.

You guys are still one notch above ( Read more... )

So when I told one of my star pupils what was said on my review, she went into the vice-deans office to find out exactly what was said in the comments. Her translation was as follows:

One is from Grade one three year program (read here second rate Freshmen), they think the political topics you talk about is such a deep level that they don’t really ( Read more... )

The more I teach, the more I really like this job.

But is hurts when I get the reviews like the last post.

Then I get an IM from one of my star pupils.

It makes me want to teach more.

It also makes me realize how teaching is a very thankless job.

But I know why they do it.  Because they care-they care about the students, they care about their success, ( Read more... )

Is is like standard operating procedure, somewhere in the ten bazillion rules for having a foreign teacher at your institution, that at least one of them has to be a pervert ( Read more... )